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More model informationA recent trip to Lewis afforded an opportunity to visit a few of the many shieling huts along and around Glen Bragar - they have their own particular characer with double skinned walls and twin opposed doorways and most seem to have niches built into their thick walls. There are three significant bothain-airighe in the Atha Ruaidh group - this is the northern one of the group and the most substantial building. It has been seriously remodelled during the latter part of the 19th Century, retaining the twin doors but with the addition of a lintelled fireplace and rudinmentary flue. Chimneys first appeared in vernacular houses on the Western Isles in the mid to late 19th Century
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